Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Так говорил танкистам политрук
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- A Wall Flower poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- What Was Lost by William Butler Yeats
- Canto XIII poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Little Memory
- A Florida Ghost. by Sidney Lanier
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- Владислав Крапивин – Все спит в тропической ночи
- Владимир Высоцкий – Космонавту Ю. Гагарину
- In A Light Time by Philip Levine
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman
- Иван Коневской – Воскресение
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.